Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Culture

A Rose By Another Name: San Jose’s Bike Party

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 19, 2010 | 35 Comments

A crowd assembles at the beginning of San Jose Bike Party, April 16, 2010. Let’s just say right away that Critical Mass is a bike party, and the San Jose Bike Party has a lot more similarities to Critical Mass than differences. A half-dozen San Francisco and Berkeley Critical Mass veterans took a field trip […]

Bicycling Magazine Ranks San Francisco 6th Best Cycling City Nationally

By Matthew Roth | Apr 6, 2010 | 9 Comments

Streetsblog Editor Bryan Goebel, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, and SFBC’s Leah Shahum riding downtown on Bike to Work Day. Photo dustinj San Francisco today was named the sixth best city in the nation for cycling by editors of Bicycling Magazine, the best ranking of any city in California. Bicycling editors chose San Francisco […]

Bicycling Activism in Quito, Ecuador: An Interview with Heleana Zambonino

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 23, 2010 | 5 Comments

Heleana Zambonino conducting a basic bicycling skills class at Sunday Streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 2009. In Guadalajara last September I met dozens of cycling activists from around Mexico, and one remarkable woman from Quito, Ecuador, Heleana Zambonino. While riding in a big Critical Mass in Guadalajara, she told me about the cycling scene in […]

Reviewing the Policing of Critical Mass

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 8, 2010 | 19 Comments

Now that the new police chief has announced he is going to "review" department procedures with respect to Critical Mass, I think it might be a good time to "review" the history of the relationship between Critical Mass and the police. I have to emphasize that this relationship has evolved in the context of a […]

Hopenhagen or Carbonhagen, We’ll Still be Cycling Regardless

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 17, 2009 | 9 Comments

Cycling chic in Copenhagen, and this is a cold day in December! I caught Mikael Colville-Andersen’s inspiring talk on urban cycling from the Copenhagen context at San Francisco’s SPUR on the last Friday of October. I suggested we could do an interview when I came to Copenhagen in December and he graciously agreed, stepping outside […]

#whyweride Offers Some Gems From Cyclists Around the Country

By Matthew Roth | Dec 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: meligrosa For all of you with a second at work today, check out the awesome trend on Twitter that has been building the past few days: #whyweride. There are some good explanations of the benefits of bicycles in a city, like "@velobration no parking, no gas, better view of nature, feel great, quads & […]

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